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Information: The Better Half of IT

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Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit. Your organization’s aggregated or synthesized data is more like a complex carbohydrate that provides fuel for sustained activity. Next, there are some preliminary steps you—or your data guru—can take: Dedicate time to mapping your data flow. Data gives us context.

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Video teaser: Candid’s brand-new, free training for funders

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To give you a taste of the course, we’ve included a clip below on how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. For our next example, we’re going to learn how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. I’d like to use the Funding Map to identify other potential grantees, not already in our network.

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Crisis Mapping in Haiti from Ushahidi, Donate by Texting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleagues at Ushahidi have already swung into action and are mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who arenot familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Tags: maps. Disclaimer: I'm on the board).

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Top 4 Donor Prospect Research Tips Leading to Bigger Gifts

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Prospect research takes a lot of time, but software that aggregates donor wealth and affinity information will free up your time for in-depth research. Giving is a social activity and donors come together around causes they care about. Trust your software to do some of the work for you. Work as a team.

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How to Maximize Your Nonprofit CEO’s Social Profiles

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Before reading further, be clear, none of this will really work if your executive employees refuse to be public and let others support in the sheer volume of work necessary for creating active profiles. This can be used to quickly aggregate relevant news in the sector and show a summary to the CEO for quick reactions.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

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Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support? We review the flurry of news stories, press releases, and announcements, and we actively search websites to identify and record grantmaking data. This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research.

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Customer Experience Plays Marketing as a Long Game

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Gartner identifies these qualities as key to delivering value: A customer journey mapping process that extends beyond acquisition and purchase through the life of the relationship. The ability to accurately develop personas and create their journey maps. “Guessing about member preferences is not an option.

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